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“As you grow older, you will discover
that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping
others.”- Audrey Hepburn.
These words summarize everything that made me want to
do this project. I did this as an extra credit service project, but at the same
time it meant a lot knowing that I was able to help soldiers when I could. For
this service project I chose to send a box of toiletries to the soldiers
overseas. This was a really interesting service project for me since I do not
have any members of my family that are currently serving in the armed forces
and it seemed like a really nice act of service for the soldiers. The things
that the soldiers receive may not be a lot but the small things are important
when they are not able to be with family for the holidays.
For me to be able to send things to the vets
overseas showed me how important helping in my career field is. The career path
that I’ve chosen is Environmental Engineering and sometimes the connection to
the people that the work directly affects gets lost in government regulations
and corporate power. I think that by sending the things I sent shows the
soldiers that their service is not unappreciated. The best way that we can be
great as a society is to be HUMAN. In that I mean that we are all victims to
life’s ups and downs and we must have the compassion to assist people in need
even if it doesn’t appear to directly impact us. Everything in this life is
connected in some way and it is important for each of us to do social service
events or projects like this in order to maintain the optimum balance of
society if we want true progress. In today’s world there is so much tension and
fear amongst people that people make excuses to get out of living within their
human nature.
The world that we live in is
focused more on the concepts surrounding material possessions but people are
empty on the inside. This imbalance creates so many issues that stunt our growth
and projects like this make a way for people that are unaware of this imbalance
to wake up and observe before the negative conditioning becomes a permanent
pathway. When I go to Haiti each year, I feed and clothes people that are in
need and I take medical supplies to small clinics and schools because supply
costs are high and they cannot afford to pay. It does not appear to be a lot on
the surface, but small events like this shape the future of the recipients of
the good deeds or acts of kindness. It is my belief that this is the first
chain to a link of chains that will change the world as we see it. One thing
that has come to my mind while writing this, is that I need to stay grounded in
these ideas while I go through my program and be apart of a few internships or
volunteering events in my field. This project was great and I understand the
reason it is important for students to complete. If the people
In closing, I feel happy that I
took Dr. Soldani’s class instead of the online class. I was able to connect
with a professor that has an investigative mind for history instead of the
standard memorization and regurgitation teaching that most history professors
hold. She told us stories so that we could see through her lens and it worked.
I am grateful of her time and her dedication.
